Emma Mayfield; or, the Rector's Daughter. By an author of celebrity [T. Frost
A cheap sensation novel of 1857, issued in London as penny serial fiction and attributed to Thomas Frost, aimed at a mass working-class readership. Its 53 wood engravings stage abductions, struggles and eavesdropped encounters in coarse, high-contrast line, with dropped hats, billowing skirts and doorway groupings — useful for melodramatic figure poses, period costume and captioned narrative panels.
